Baste
To baste meat in a dream — tending it close so it does not dry — can carry a warning against undermining oneself through folly or selfishness. The dream tends to touch the small, attentive care a thing needs to come right, and to ask whether our own hand is helping or spoiling what we are trying to make good.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for baste, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will undermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness. For a woman to baste her sewing, omens much vacation owing to her extravagance.